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Medium ALAS2-2023-2115 1 CVE

Moderate: pidgin security update (Amazon Linux 2)

Published Jul 5, 2023 · Updated Jul 19, 2023

Summary

Package updates are available for Amazon Linux 2 that fix the following vulnerabilities: CVE-2022-26491: An issue was discovered in Pidgin before 2.14.9. A remote attacker who can spoof DNS responses can redirect a client connection to a malicious server. The client will perform TLS certificate verification of the malicious domain name instead of the original XMPP service domain, allowing the attacker to take over control over the XMPP connection and to obtain user credentials and all communication content. This is similar to CVE-2022-24968.

Fixed packages 10

ReleasePackageFixed in
Amazon Linux · 2 finch 0:2.10.11-9.amzn2.0.1
Amazon Linux · 2 finch-devel 0:2.10.11-9.amzn2.0.1
Amazon Linux · 2 libpurple 0:2.10.11-9.amzn2.0.1
Amazon Linux · 2 libpurple-devel 0:2.10.11-9.amzn2.0.1
Amazon Linux · 2 libpurple-perl 0:2.10.11-9.amzn2.0.1
Amazon Linux · 2 libpurple-tcl 0:2.10.11-9.amzn2.0.1
Amazon Linux · 2 pidgin 0:2.10.11-9.amzn2.0.1
Amazon Linux · 2 pidgin-debuginfo 0:2.10.11-9.amzn2.0.1
Amazon Linux · 2 pidgin-devel 0:2.10.11-9.amzn2.0.1
Amazon Linux · 2 pidgin-perl 0:2.10.11-9.amzn2.0.1

Vulnerabilities 1

References

  • web
    https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2022-26491.html